Tag: Biotechnology

December 10, 2019

A study by researchers at WPI and the Central Food Technological Research Institute in India shows that yeasts derived from ...

Interrogating the biological fundamentals of CRISPR to better treat infections

December 10, 2019

ERC Consolidator Grant for HIRI researcher Chase BeiselCredit: Mario Schmitt Chase Beisel heads the "Synthetic Biology of RNA" research group ...

She uses mushroom enzyme and light to create green chemicals

December 10, 2019

By combining nature's own reactions, Associate Professor Selin Kara from the Department of Engineering at Aarhus University aims to develop ...

Storing data in everyday objects

Credit: ETH Zurich / Julian Koch Living beings contain their own assembly and operating instructions in the form of DNA. ...

Increasing food intake by swapping mitochondrial genomes

Credit: Maria Litovchenko & Roel Bevers (EPFL) Many of the characteristics that make people so different from each other, are ...

Predicting a protein’s behavior from its appearance

Credit: Laura Persat / 2019 EPFL Proteins are the building blocks of life and play a key role in all ...

Rhythmic perception in humans has strong evolutionary roots

So suggests a study that compares the behaviour of rodents and humans with respect to the detection rhythm, by Alexandre ...

The next step in organ transplants: New startup takes aim at reperfusion injury

Charleston, SC-based Lydex Pharmaceuticals has received a small business technology transfer grant from the NIH to investigate and develop compounds ...

Scientists have spotted new compounds with herbicidal potential from sea fungus

Credit: FEFU press office Scientists of Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) and the G.B. Elyakov Pacific Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry ...

Discovery of genes involved in the biosynthesis of antidepressant

Hypericin in St. John's WortCredit: P. Rizzo / IPK The herb St John's Wort Hypericum perforatum has a long history ...

Study shows first signs of cross-talk between RNA surveillance and silencing systems

Credit: DGIST A recent study by a team of scientists in Korea reveals new findings about how various systems involved ...

Dendrites filtering neuron’s excitement

Purkinje cell dendrites filter inputs into the cell, demonstrating a new learning mechanism in the cerebellumCredit: Kyoto University/Mindy Takamiya Kyoto, ...

Empowering mucosal healing with an engineered probiotic

A genetically programmed living hydrogel material facilitates intestinal wound healing and could be developed as a probiotic therapy for patients ...

Improved pH probes may help towards cancer treatments

Credit: Kanazawa University "It is becoming clear that an acid extracellular pH plays an essential role in cancer cell progression, ...

Janus bases among The Scientist’s Top Innovations of 2019

Invented at Carnegie Mellon, the bivalent nucleic acid recognition platform is being used to develop treatments for rare genetic diseasesCredit: ...

New tool to detect blackleg disease in potato has widespread application

Credit: The American Phytopathological Society Potatoes are important. They rank fourth among the world's staple crops. In the United States, ...

Microwave treatment is an inexpensive way to clean heavy metals from treated sewage

Credit: Mark Wallheiser / FAMU-FSU College of Engineering TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- A team of Florida State University researchers studying new ...

Insilico publishes a review of deep aging clocks and announces the issuance of key patent

Insilico Medicine announced the publication of a comprehensive review of the deep biomarkers of aging and the publication of a ...

Modern technology and old-fashioned legwork solve science mystery

Video shows single-cell organism making complex decisionsCredit: Image credit: Joseph Dexter and Sudhakaran Prabakaran/Current Biology. HANOVER, N.H. - December 5, ...

Squid pigments have antimicrobial properties